The Future This Week, March 5, 2017

Neil might have added, “or have profit motives.” The news about commercial space exploration is almost nonstop these days. Here’s what’s been happening in the past week.

Commercial space ventures–

Elon Musk (who else?) and SpaceX, not to be outdone by anyone or anything, one-upped the Russian space agency’s 2022 moon tourism plans by announcing it would send its as yet untested Dragon capsule around the moon with two tourists by late next year.